1939-03-04 — Page 3

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March, 4, 1939.

SCHOOLMASTER CROOK Jail Comforts For

STOLE MAN'S LIFE SAVINGS

PLAUSIBLE, cultured Edward Jones, graduate of Harvard University, ex-minister, ex-social worker, ex- school master, and ex-convict, will spend the next 12 months in gaol for "the exceedingly cruel thing of robbing a poor man of his life savings."

While housemaster at a farm training colony at Benson. Oxfordshire, he offered to pay into the bank a cheque for £85 38.. belonging to a Mr. Frederick W. Trotman, a worker at the Colony.

He sent the cheque to a grocery | store in Wallingford as security for! a debt of £15.

He gave permission for the cheque to be eashed, kept the balance, and vanished after re- signing his Job.

lle was sentenced at Oxford Assizes

after a record

of his remarkable career had been read out.

"I was broken by my just record," Jones sald from the dock. "Once you have got into a criminal mess you dure

not

tell

anyone about it. Jones began life in North Wales. Leaving a secundary school there, he went to the United States

and graduated at Harvard.

Holyhead,

"NOTHING AGAINST HIM" 1fe went to Canada and, according to the police, was convicted of serious offence while headmaster at a college in Nova Scotia and deported In 1932.

Back in England, he worked as a ESTEL 10 minister and social worker. went wrong again, and was sentenced) to six months' imprisonment at Ayles- bury for false picteners and fraud.

His statement that for 18 month he worked as an independent investi- gator, studying social conditions for the House of Charity, an organisation in Soho, W., which helps professional and educated men who are in-sved, is not substantiated.

He came to us at the end of 1937, and was given help." the chaplain at the House of Churity sald.

;

They Scored A

Bull-With A Hose

A BULL grazing in a field at

shipner, Bognor Regis, took

n dislike to an open fire at a gipsy encampment.

So he turned over a kettle, up- mel the breakfast, and set are to the sleeping quarters,

Bognor Regis fire brigade was called, but while they were pul, ting out the fire, the bull re- appeared.

ifs rush was checked when a hose wa turned on him, The buli shook his head, bellowed, and troited off.

Salvation Army Changes

Changes in the higher command of the Salvation Army, caused by the rebrements on reaching the age limit, include the appointment of Lieut-

We have nothing against him. He told us, truthfully, that he had been Commissioner J. F. Lewis ns governer co-principal of a preparatory school at Littlehampton and had lost all his money,"

BURIAL BOARD IN' DEBT

Great

of the men's corint work in Britain and Ireland, in strecession in

Commissioner G. J. Jolliffe.

Colone! John McDougal elief secretary for Wales and the West, has been appointed to commend the northern territory in succession to LONDON. the 5,000 in-Commissioner Lewis, So healthy urc

Commissioner David Cuthbert, un-i habitants of Amble, Northumberland, that the local burial board is getting til recently-managing director of the into debt. The board's only income Salvation Army Assurance Society, is from burials, and as there have has been sent by General Evangeline only been 28 deaths in the lust six Hoolh on a special mission to Austra- months, outlook is discouraging. | lia and New Zealand,

These two smartly dressed Indies attended the Ladies' Day at the Race Meeting.—Staff Photographer,

Albizary, Supreme Court

Income Tax Debtors Spring is in the air

THE jail-for-income-tax season recently opened. It will go on until Easter, when the number of jailed debtors will fall abruptly.

There are three other "seasons" in the year, ending at Whitsun, August bank holiday and Christmny.

"Income-tax deblors dont like to) be inside at holiday time," an official of Brixton Prison, S.W., sald recent-

IM

London's Lord Mayor issued war-1 rants against 20 defaulters. If they! Foto Jall, their imprisonment will wipe out their debt (although in the- Cory It shouldn't)

Some of the habitual defaultersi find Jain comfortable way of gel- ting rid of their debt,

ONLY "SNAGS"

The debtor is accommodated in ai special portion of the prison.

His room is fitted ojit for comfort. Perhaps the only discomforts the de- faulter finds are his inability to smoke or drink or to see his friends as re- gularly as he would like. Visitors are only allowed at intervals.

It is true, that the dubtop has to kel up fairly early and tidy his room, but after breakfast he can read.

HIS BOOKS

The librarian visits him regularly to And out his needs.

GERMANY'S NEW BATTLESHIPS

Berlin,

Nazi Germany's first 35,000-ton battleship was recently launched

Kiel in the presence of Hitler, who made an important speech.

A second 35,000-ton bailleskip Is expected to be launched this summer and a 45,000-ton super dread-nought is also planned. I in kald that further Anglo-German falks on limitation of battleship tonnage is not necessary's Eng- Jand has already settled the prob- Iem by a proposed increase to 45,- 000 tons In her own construction ( other Powers increase to this tonnage).

Then he is taken out for exercise to gain an appetite for dinner, which he can have sent in if he has the means to pay for it.

In the afternoon he can do more reading until exercise and ten-time. Then, until lights out," he does as he likes.

Little interest appears to have been taken of the ponies parading in the paddock before races as this picture shows.--Staff Photograkter.

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